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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. William Forrester

Mr. William Forrester , Postmaster in charge, has held office since September, 1892. He was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, on the 16th of January, 1831, and spent his early days mostly as a miner. Subsequently, he became a ploughman, and followed that calling for sixteen years. He transhipped from the ship “Oamaru,” at Port Chalmers, on the 10th of January, 1879, and went straight to North Otago, where he has ever since been a settler. Mr. Forrester found employment at Totara for a time, and was afterwards for two years at Weston, and, later, on the Ardgowan station, where he worked for seven years. He then settled at Weston, where he acquired a house and sections, when he was appointed Postmaster. Mr. Forrester was married, on the 17th of October, 1853, to a daughter of Mr. James Wilkie, of Fifeshire, Scotland, and has three sons and three daughters.